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Developers Tools for building Flex apps
 If you are the text editor type guy, you can use the free Flex SDK
 If you prefer working with IDEs, you can use Flash Builder 4
Flash Builder 4
• Built on the Eclipse platform
• Supports Mac OS and Windows
• Standalone version and plug-in version
• Free for Students/Professors
• 60-day trial installation
• Can be installed with PDT, Zend Studio…
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What is Fx Gallery
 It is an image gallery module for Drupal created with Flex
 It doesn’t have any dependencies
 It has 2 views: a widget and a gallery view
 e gallery view supports full screen mode
 It aggregates pictures from the local Drupal installations, Flickr,
or Picasa
 It is Open Source and thus additional features can be added by
the community
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Ge ing pictures from Flickr/Picasa
 e client makes requests to the cloud services in order to
retrieve:
 Available albums
 Picture information (title, date, URL)
 Picture bits
All this information are not routed through Drupal web server, so
there is no bandwidth cost or server loading while watching
pictures from Flickr or Picasa
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Work ows for building Flex apps
Create the Design in
Photoshop or Illustrator
Transform it into a Flex app
In Flash Catalyst
Add the business logic
In Flash Builder
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App in a Week Webinar – June 7th-10th
You can read more and nd the link for signing in on my blog
corlan.org
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